{"id":47277,"date":"2025-08-05T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47277\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:11:07","slug":"chael-sonnen-doesnt-believe-its-fair-to-question-khamzat-chimaevs-conditioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47277\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen doesn’t believe it’s fair to question Khamzat Chimaev’s conditioning"},"content":{"rendered":"

MMA analyst Chael Sonnen doesn\u2019t believe it\u2019s fair to question the state of Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s conditioning ahead of UFC 319.<\/p>\n

\"Khamzat<\/p>\n

As we know, we\u2019re just a few weeks away from Khamzat Chimaev challenging<\/a> Dricus du Plessis for the UFC middleweight championship. It\u2019s a fight that\u2019s been a long time coming, and it\u2019s one that many are backing \u2018Borz\u2019 to win. However, some have questioned the state of his conditioning.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Chael Sonnen believes Khamzat Chimaev could serve as back-up fighter for UFC 312 main event<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a question mark that has followed Chimaev around for a while now in the UFC. While he\u2019s dominant when he gets to his opponent early, he sometimes fades slightly when it comes to the later rounds. Of course, it may not end up being a problem whatsoever, but it\u2019s worth keeping in mind.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview, the aforementioned Chael Sonnen explained his thoughts on the conversation surrounding Chimaev\u2019s cardio.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA analyst Chael Sonnen doesn\u2019t believe it\u2019s fair to question the state of Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s conditioning ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-47277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}